Dinosaurs were cold-blooded. Increased K-12 spending and lower
pupil/teacher ratios boost public school student outcomes. Most of
the DNA in the human genome is junk. Saccharin causes cancer and a
high fiber diet prevents it. Stars cannot be bigger than 150 solar
masses.
In the past half-century, all of the foregoing facts have turned out to be wrong. In the modern world facts change all of the time, according to Samuel Arbesman, author of the new book The Half-Life of Facts: Why Everything We Know Has an Expiration Date (Current).
Read more: http://reason.com/archives/2012/12/24/half-the-facts-you-know-are-probably-wro
In the past half-century, all of the foregoing facts have turned out to be wrong. In the modern world facts change all of the time, according to Samuel Arbesman, author of the new book The Half-Life of Facts: Why Everything We Know Has an Expiration Date (Current).
Read more: http://reason.com/archives/2012/12/24/half-the-facts-you-know-are-probably-wro
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